Medical Term:

backcross

Pronunciation: bak′kros

Definition: The mating between an animal that is homozygous at a locus of interest and an animal that is heterozygous, commonly from the same ancestral stock.

Synonym(s): testcross

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Examples: glitazone, GI cocktail, etc.

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